“Does America really want a strong Europe?” In the week leading up to President Bush’s European tour, this question was asked again and again by the continent’s journalists and diplomats–and Americans answered: “Yes, yes, of course we do.”
But one of the important lessons of the trans-Atlantic traumas since 9/11 is that while Europeans and more
You can’t fix a problem if you don’t understand it. We all know that there is a big problem in America’s relations with Europe. But even now–with President Bush traveling the continent on a major trip–most reports still fail to show even minimal understanding of what the problem is or how it came to more
The ancient Egyptians could scratch lines on a papyrus scroll, roll it up and put it in a jar in a dry cave–and 2,500 years later, the document would still be legible (assuming its discoverer could read ancient Egyptian).
Modern technology is more impressive, but also more fragile. Celluloid film decays, magnetic tape deteriorates, more
We will probably never know the full truth of the United Nations’ oil-for-food scandal. We will probably never see any of those implicated in the scandal punished. And that’s just the way the U.N. wants it.
The oil-for-food program began as a humanitarian plan to soften the sanctions against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The U.N. would allow more
What is it with these Liberals? When Fox News wants to come to Canada, they go on about the distinctive Canadian way of life and the perils of U.S.-style politics. Yet let one of their own get into trouble, and nationalism flies out the window: Suddenly Warren Kinsella and Sheila Copps are belting out old more
After Monday’s euphoric response to Iraq’s elections, today will be a day for caveats. You’ll hear it said that elections are not the same as democracy, that many troubles lie ahead, that the insurgency remains alive and deadly. And all this is, of course, true.
But it is also true that the Iraq election is a more
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